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Andy Kerr’s Campaign Rhetoric, Voting Record at Odds

Despite numerous pledges on the campaign trail to end partisanship and politics-as-usual, Colorado state representative Andy Kerr voted with his party 100 percent of the time on Democratic legislation that was brought to the floor for a final vote. Kerr is currently vying for a seat in the Colorado state Senate.

“For years, I have proven that I put the interests of Colorado first, put politics aside, and let our shared values move good policy forward,” Kerr writes on his campaign site.

But an analysis of final floor votes on legislation that was sponsored exclusively by either Republicans or Democrats shows that Kerr’s voting record is anything but bipartisan. During the last legislative session, Democrats in the General Assembly sought floor votes on 54 bills with a bipartisan list of sponsors and on 29 bills that were sponsored exclusively by Democrats.

Kerr’s voting record on Republican-backed legislation was not much different. Of the 32 bills that were brought to the floor by Republican leadership and sponsored exclusively by Republicans, Kerr voted against nearly 70 percent of them – siding with the Republican-backed legislation only 10 times

Many of the 32 GOP-backed bills passed by huge margins with significant bipartisan support. In one example, Kerr sided with the Democratic leadership and voted against a popular bill concerning pupil enrollment, this despite 35% of Kerr’s Democratic colleagues voting in favor of the measure. The legislation easily passed on a bi-partisan 40-21 vote, with eleven Democrats crossing the aisle.